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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:23:14 GMT
I thought it would be awesome to share our memories of Halloween and the fall season in the 90's. I remember quite a few things from then. To name a couple of things was my school when they had the costume parade and a fun day for Halloween on weekdays where we'd get in on the candy early. Along with Gym class when they had turned the gym into a haunted house that was a course for us to run through while Halloween music played. Another one was when my now late grandmother took me to her work's Halloween parties they had for the worker's kids or grand kids. Then there was the trick or treating. One of the best places to go to were the rich people's houses for the full sized candy bars. Whenever I passed a trick or treater I'd ask what had the gold also known as the good houses to hit and those with trash also known as the bad houses or the ones with nothing good. Then I'd tell them the same thing in my route. So what is everyone's favorite Halloween/Fall memories?
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:26:35 GMT
I can still remember most of my costumes from elementary school. Every year the 6th graders did a Halloween type dance routine for the school (and when I was in 6th grade they stopped doing it, I was so mad). We did a parade throughout the school and I would go trick-or-treating with friends sometimes. In 6th grade I had this whole plan with my friend johnny but we had to cancel due to a family emergency. I ended up going trick-or-treating a day early that year in my grandma's hometown. When we moved to the house I used to live in before the one I currently live in, it was really the dead zone. No trick-or-treaters ever came to our house.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:28:07 GMT
As far as being a kid in the 90's goes my Halloween was pretty average. My costumes in the early 90s (up until 1996) were strictly Power Rangers (first year was red, followed by black, followed by red again). I never could find a Green or White Ranger costume. Other than that they were pretty random. The last costume I actually remember was I dressed like The Rock in 2000. Mainly all I did was have a flat top hair cut, a Just Bring It shirt, sweat pants and a shitty Brahma bull drawing on my arm. It was memorable and fellow classmates noticed it. Mainly thanks to the WWF being huge at that time. Beyond the costumes I went trick or treating in our local housing addition (one I now currently live in).
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:30:07 GMT
I was, in no particular order: A skeleton, Sonic the Hedgehog and... I forget what else.
Also, one year, I remember one particularly terrifying stop at a house where someone was dressed as the Grim Reaper, dragging their scythe across the gravel driveway while some really creepy music played in the background. Oddly enough, I noticed my dad talking to the guy right when we went to leave. It was sort of weird seeing my own father talking to someone dressed like the embodiment of death, but... meh.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:32:59 GMT
Halloween memories from my childhood are iffy. I definitely remember being six, maybe seven years old and being taken to a haunted house by my Dad and Grandpa Manny. At the time I'd say the haunted house was made for the early twenties. Now, keep in mind the fog of time may have altered what I saw, but the greeter was a corpse - not a zombie - with white skin, blood and wrapped in bloody plastic. There was a room with a dead dude watching a static-y television, the lights flickering. Basically, it scared the shit out of me at the time and I remember both my Dad and Grandpa taking turns carrying me. Then they got home and my Mother and Grandma Marcia scolded them both for "scarring" me (scared me at the time; love haunted houses now). But I like the memory. It was one of those haunted houses advertized on the radio, so you knew it was scary and it's kinda nice remembering, because my Grandpa Manny died when I was thirteen or fourteen and I love him a great deal. May have been my Grandma's second husband, but I didn't learn that until I was like ten and it's damn hard not to even love his memory. So despite the terror, I think of Halloween and my mind always wanders there. Which I don't mind in the slightest.
Otherwise, my memories are pretty simple. Mostly trick or treated with siblings or friends, I dressed up as a Power Ranger at least three times, I'm fairly certain I dressed up as Wolverine after watching the X-Men cartoon, a bloody-faced Grim Reaper and the only other costume from the nineties I remember (aside from being Batman when I was like one or two) was a year where I dressed up as Bill Clinton. Apparently, the adults in my life found this to be humorous, especially my Grandpa Jack (who has been politically involved his entire life and is wholly responsible for my political involvement as well). Not much else to say, though. I went out. I got candy. I stopped trick or treating around eleven or twelve.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:34:15 GMT
Halloween for me usually was hanging out with friends while they go trick or treating before I moved to Florida. Mind you, that they were around my age at the time so mid teens since I was still in High School at the time. As for after I moved I haven't done much but this year I got invited to a party along with my room mates probably won't be dressing up since I dress up at conventions and all I got is my tail and ears I may end up using. Though the guy I've been talking to lately has been busy so he can't come to the party. One costume I want to do is ether Ezio or Conner from the Assassin's Creed games that would make my life complete.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 9, 2015 10:36:24 GMT
I remember going Trick-or-Treating as a kid from a very young age up to the fifth grade. I quit trick-or-treating after fifth grade because I decided I was too old for it and haven't done it since then. As a kid, I almost always went as a pirate. I chose to go as a pirate because it was always the easiest one to dress up as. I do, however; remember going as a doctor one year and "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan as a fifth grader. There was also one year in elementary school where we actually just had Halloween festivities going on all day instead of doing actual learning.
This year, I'm not sure what I'll be doing. The past three years I've gone to Halloween dances, but I'm not completely sure this year. I've almost always watched It's The Great Pumpkin: Charlie Brown, Disney's Under Wraps, and Don't Look Under the Bed every Halloween, so that tradition will most likely continue this year.
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